Ecumenical Patriarch Eutychios

Ecumenical Patriarch Eutychios (512-11 April 582) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Minas and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes III and from 577 to 582, succeeding Ioannes III and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Ioannes IV.

Biography
Eutychios became the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the death of Ecumenical Patriarch Minas in 552, and in 562 he consecrated the new Hagia Sophia church. However, in 564 he argued with Emperor Justinian, who stated that Jesus Christ's body on Earth was incorruptible and subject to no pain. At a feast, Eutychius was arrested and thrown into exile, but in 577 Justinian's son Justin II of Byzantium agreed to heed the people of Constantinople's demands for Eutychios' return after the death of Ioannes. Eutychios was patriarch until his death in 582.